TY  - DATA
AU  - Fangnan,Zheng
AU  - Hua,Xin
AU  - Jun,Song
AU  - Mengyu,Ding
ED  - Center of International  Cultural Exchange
ED  - Bureau for External Cultural Relations
TI  - Qixia temple 1937: A Colour Feature
PY  - 2006///]
CY  - [Beijing]
PB  - [Bureau for External Cultural Relations]
KW  - Buddhist monks
KW  - China Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng)
KW  - Drama
KW  - Refugee camps
KW  - Historical films
KW  - China
N2  - This feature film is based on an actual, historical event. In December 1937, after occupying Nanjing, invading Japanese soldiers sacked the city, killing, burning and plundering. In order to protect the refugees and Chinese soldiers, the monks of Qixia Temple, under Master Jiran, voluntarily created a Buddhist refugee camp and helped more than 24,000 people resettle. Because of this, one of the tommple's monks was brutally killed. However, Master Jiran and other unarmed Chinese monks fearlessly used the Buddhist doctrine of saving all living creatures and demonstrating benevolence to face and defeat the evil around them, thus saving the ancient temple and the lives of many refugees."--Container
ER  -